A DECAPITATED head was found outside a shisha cafe this morning after it was placed in the pavement to face up through the windows.

Horrific footage of the severed head has been shared hundreds of times on social media after the gruesome discovery was made outside a café in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital popular with British tourists.

The head was left outside Fayrouz Lounge close to the city's popular Vondelpark this morning.

It comes just one week after footage of a woman carrying a decapitated head in Russia emerged online.

A nanny is believed to have severed the four-year-old girl's head before taking it out onto the streets.

In Amsterdam, the gruesome find was also filmed before being posted to Liveleak.